EAD Tag Library for Version 1.0

EAD Elements: <creation> Creation

Description:

A subelement of the <profiledesc> portion of <eadheader> used for information about the encoding of the finding aid, including the person(s) or agency(ies) responsible for the coding, the date, and the circumstances under which the encoding was done.

This element is modeled on a Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTD header element.

May contain:

#PCDATA, abbr, archref, bibref, date, emph, expan, extptr, extref, lb, linkgrp, ptr, ref, title

May occur within:

profiledesc

Attributes:

ALTRENDER	#IMPLIED, CDATA
AUDIENCE	#IMPLIED, external, internal
ENCODINGANALOG	#IMPLIED, CDATA
ID	#IMPLIED, ID

Example:

<eadheader findaidstatus="edited-full-draft" langencoding="ISO 639-2">
[other possible elements and text... ]
<profiledesc>
<creation>Machine-readable finding aid and skeletal markup derived via
a macro from WordPerfect file; markup checked and completed by Sarah
Accords. <date normal="19950423">April 23, 1995.</date></creation>
</profiledesc>
[other possible elements and text... ]
</eadheader>

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